Sentences with phrase «teach good morals»

Yet, if you are born in a Muslim state, raised by loving parents who teach you GOOD morals in a Muslim religion... Christian God sends you to hell.

The Bible mentions that Muslims are the ones that wrote the Bible and that Jesus Christ became Ayman al - Zawahiri in Yemen so he will come to America to teach us good moral values.

Not exact matches

The Catholic Church is likely suffers the most prejudice and hatred... a good sign that that the moral teaching of the gospels that the Church continues to uphold is the truth against which the world has always been opposed to... and that is why Jesus the Redeemer was crucified.

I don't think that its feasible to expect everyone to follow NFP, though I'm personally a huge proponent and believe women need more education on their bodies and menstrual cycles, and condoms while not «moral» persay or in line with the church's teaching are a much better option than hormonal birth control or Plan B as they are simply a barrier method not an abortificant.

Good article but there was a slight mistake I think... «If Jesus was just a soft moral teacher who taught us to love one another and petted little babies, the Romans wouldn't have crucified him....

i beleive there is good out there, and as a Mom i want to make sure i live me life in a way that will make my daughter proud of me so i will introduce Church to her and i will teach her the commandments because whether or not Moses came down from the mountain with two tablets in his hands they are a good starting point to instill good morals.

Just point to a comprehensive moral system that is better than the teachings of Christ.

That was the belief of his earlier followers, and it was the basis of a good deal of his moral teaching.»

Tony Judt put it best in his book Post War: «If Europe's past is to continue to furnish Europe's present with admonitory meaning, and with moral purpose» then it will have to be taught afresh with each passing generation.»

An important aspect of that is developing any working upon a stronger happier family and that morals and guidelines given for creating and maintaining those families is a way to develop that mastery of those teachings from God that greater happiness and greater development of our well being,

The news of including teaching about same - sex relationships has not gone down well with those who consider sexuality a moral issue which parents will have different views on.

I'd also love to hear what other «good moral teachings» were in Christianity that persuaded her that couldn't also be found in dozens of other pre-Christian or non-Christian cultures.

The first point to acknowledge in considering this view is that the Church has always taught that it is incompatible with an authentic sense of moral responsibility deliberately to choose what is known to be morally wrong, however good and desirable one's further purpose might be.

So, if you had the ability to judge God as a good guy before accepting what the Bible has to say about his always being good, then you had morals before the Bible taught you that nobody without a belief that God is the source of morals has any morals.

The historical stories, I maintain, are best taken as parables illustrating moral and metaphysical teachings.

For as well as theoretical reflection on the moral significance of a decision, there are other ways and means by which a human being can either become clear about the rightness and conformity to God's will of a decision, or at least improve the conditions for its correct formation: the general cultivation of courage, unselfishness, self - denial, the practice of the art of making vital particular decisions which can not be deduced by purely theoretical consideration as this art is taught by the masters of the spiritual life.

The moral theology that I was taught and that for some years I myself taught reflected the immigrant Catholic community Kennedy described as well as the ecclesiology that nourished it.

This hubris is in contradistinction to the clear teaching of the Catechism of the Catholic Church» for the Catechism, while assuming a serious dialogue among government officials, just war analysts, and the public, nonetheless teaches (at § 2309) that «the evaluation of these [just war] conditions for moral legitimacy belongs to the prudential judgment of those who have responsibility for the common good.»

This includes the specific appeals made to God's will as well as the general theological beliefs which serve to validate the content of the moral teachings.

while this murdered was breeding kids getting college paid I wonder if instead of teaching my kids good morals and good standars teach them how to kill people I bet they got free education!

Morals are taught through many experiences and religion is but one of them and just as likely to provide a bad example as a good.

His heaviest count against the prevailing teaching of his time is precisely this: that, starting with the best intentions, it had come to encourage this folly and evil, as if it were inseparable from a high moral standard.

Meanwhile, here's a brilliant man exploring the teachings of Jesus for reflections on living a good and moral life.

What I am calling for here is for the Birmingham programme to present that approach in a more systematic way which will show to best advantage the compellingnature of the Church's moral teaching as true.

If my account is fairly accurate, then I think my judgments about how we should act are also well - grounded in basic Christian moral teaching.

Jack — I am suggesting that moral teachings change as societal norms change, and that is good.

And in conforming to mainstream academic tenure standards, is BYU losing talented professors who are best equipped to prepare students to consider changing moral foundations, but lack professionally accepted venues through which to publish what they teach and study?

A much greater concern, however, is the moral flavor of the school, the values by which it lives as well as those which it explicitly teaches.

Is He God come in the flesh, or is He just some man with good morals and teachings?

Bob: «Christine, what do we do with good moral teachings that predate Jesus?

When you teach children who are too young to know any better that it's a virtue to believe things based on faith, despite contradictory evidence or moral instincts, you get people flying planes into buildings in the name of their god.

At this present time, in a period of decline in Christian faith and morals which is still unchecked, still sweeping even lower, it remains true that the teachings given men by Christ, although whittled away and progressively abandoned, still preserve a better level of charity, justice, and chastity in human affairs throughout Christendom than prevails in those regions where the name of Christ has hardly entered, or where it is bitterly persecuted.

But his words were bound to be misunderstood in Rome, as well as distorting his teaching in a way that for generations has allowed Catholics anxious to challenge the magisterium on some point of faith and morals to claim that they have Newman on their side.

The church possesses, or better is possessed by, the principle of life «in Christ» — a life of discipleship that is not simply obedience to a set of moral truths supposedly taught by Jesus but a life in which «Christ dwells in our hearts by faith» and enables his people to act, insofar as they are able, in conformity with his pattern of human existence.

As is evident in John Paul's recent encyclical, Veritatis Splendor, the Catholic Church is well aware that it must more persuasively present its moral teaching, both to its own people and to the world.

Roger Shinn, who taught ethics for many years at Union Theological Seminary in New York, offers a clearly written essay, «Between Eden and Babel,» in which he explores in brief compass many of the moral issues involved as well as some of the first ethical discussions of cloning more than thirty years ago after tadpoles had been cloned.

If we can respectfully acknowledge that a majority of todays» generation of believers are taught into the faith by their parents, we reluctantly must conclude that the theology base of * a lot * of these believers is not upon careful reflection and personal choice upon the fervent divulgence of the Scriptures, but rather a hodge - podge compilation of «feel good» thoughts that have no biblical or moral grounding other than vague references.

One hopes that the Supreme Court will interpret the word «religion» broadly to cover the moral teaching of religious bodies as well as worship and rituals.

In contrast, sectors of the population linked to international trade, occupying a dominant position in world markets, and depending on open diplomatic channels might well find themselves more in sympathy with lower defense budgets, higher education outlays, cosmopolitan values, and liberal religious institutions whose theologies favor universalism and whose moral teachings favor relativism and discretion.

Some of the ethics courses offered at Notre Dame are consistent with Catholic moral teachings and some are not: to maintain that certain moral theories are better than others might offend someone.

It is not necessary for certain ideas to have evolved, as is evidenced by other cultures (not to say in any way that they are wrong, however, there are practices that oppose the morals ingrained in us by the society we live in) so could a parent raise perfectly good children without the bible, in this day in age, probably yes, but you must recognize, that much of what they will be teaching will come from their society, adn quite honestly I'm not sure honoring your parents, and not killing are such a bad thing.

Even for the Catholic the road from the general principles of Christian ethics to concrete decision has become considerably longer than formerly, even when he is determined unconditionally to respect all those principles, and for a good part of the way, in the last decisive stages of the formation of the concrete moral imperative, he is therefore inevitably left by the Church's teaching and pastoral authority more than formerly to his own conscience, to form the concrete decision independently on his own responsibility.

It was the firm conviction of secular philosophy as well as religious teaching in my youth that morals and rational reasoning lead to the same conclusions, and this was the basis of the trust in progress I was brought up with.

Carol Tauer, a philosopher at Minnesota's St. Catherine's College, has recently challenged the moral logic of this declaration, as well as of the current pastoral teachings on abortion, in an incisive and thorough analysis of the tradition of probabilism — a theory of practical decision - making that is accepted in Catholic moral teaching.

There is no requirement to believe in a god in order to believe that the core moral and ethical teachings of Jesus are good models to follow.

According to your own Magisterium, you are to submit to the RCC in all matters of doctrine as well as moral teachings.

Mormon, Ethical Culture, Catholic» don't matter so long as «good moral values» are taught.

basically, humanist philosophies teach us to be much better people than christian «morals».

Therefore the Church's moral teaching states that condom use in marriage is a grave injury upon a good act.

The popular seminar speaker and his ministry had weathered moral and financial controversies, as well as scrutiny over his teachings, in the past.